The lawyers of Congress rejected the amnesty law in 2021 as unconstitutional and the PSOE thought the same

MADRID, 28 Ago. (EUROPA PRESS) -

The lawyers of the Congress rejected as unconstitutional the amnesty law that the Catalan separatists registered in 2021, a refusal that the Table of Congress endorsed and that the PSOE endorsed, stressing that a general pardon "has no place" in the Constitution.

Two and a half years later, the debate on the amnesty law returns to the first term and is one of the demands of ERC and Junts to consider whether they support the investiture of the socialist Pedro Sánchez. The second vice president and leader of Sumar, Yolanda Díaz, has already advanced her position in favor of approving a law of this type, which in her opinion does have constitutional requirements.

It was in March 2021 when Esquerra (ERC), Junts, the CUP and the PDeCAT registered in Congress a law to amnesty "all acts of political intent, whatever the result", from January 1, 2013, which which would include, in addition to 1-O, those sentenced by the sovereign consultation of November 9, 2014.

But the initiative was not even admitted for processing because the lawyers of Congress, in a report collected at the time by Europa Press, warned that this law, by assuming a general pardon, "would enter into a clear and evident contradiction" with what established in article 62 of the Constitution, which prevents the authorization of general pardons. The last amnesty was approved in 1977, precisely as a step prior to the Constituent Cortes.

The criteria of the lawyers was assumed by the Congress Table chaired by Meritxell Batet and, with the votes of PSOE, PP and Vox, the proposal was rejected for processing. United We Can, like now Sumar, stood out and supported the claim of the independentistas.

Although both the PNV and Compromís were willing to support its processing, the socialist part of the Government has already warned of its unconstitutionality. The then Minister of Justice, Juan Carlos Campo, who is now a member of the Constitutional Court, ignored the calls for amnesty made by the CUP in a control session and asked to bet on "a constructive dialogue to resolve the Catalan conflict, but within of the Constitution and the laws".

The PSOE spokeswoman herself at the time, Adriana Lastra, already advanced her vote against the amnesty law, alleging that "it has no place" in the 1978 Constitution. "We will vote against," she settled at a press conference, even before before the issue reached the Congress Table.